Learning Elixir by learning Phoenix Framework. Trying to build up interactive Deck GL map. A little frustration, a litle anger, a little excitement, a little hope and everything in between.
As usually, nobody tells you about nice project structure. You are left alone to figure that out. Docks says - use umbrella projects to organize your work. Others says “Don’t use them”. Some says - “we are ditching ubrella projects in our org” without giving too much reasoning.
Phoenix is betting on Tailwind. Basically they force you into it right at the very beginnig. I hate that. I don’t think, Tailwind should be used in any long term project. I ditched it and switched just old good Sass.
As I develop “in open”, I see quite some “bot hack scans” comming in. I just wrote some simple
Plug and placed it right before hitting the Router. In endpoint.ex. Basically made some
simple “honey pot” to collect the IP’s and patterns.
On some URL’s I just mess up with the response headers to make some fun out of them. :)
Found that root.html.ex and app.html.ex default layout example bit confusing to understand.
But that’s because I am coming from Public/Authenticated apllication context. Even more… my
authenticated “applications/modules” each have a little different layouts.
So… they default example makes sense only for very basic “to-do app” layouts. nothing more.
For example… you might want to load different JS bundles at different routes… good luck to
figure that out! Not a single indication in the Docs. For example, Deck GL can go up to 20MB
bundle. There is no way I would ever bundle it into default app.js.
So… either you create some nasty conditionals in the root layout (html head), either you use
some CDN. And good luck with tree shaking.
A LOOOOT of outdated content! But at least there IS content. :)
So… at this point… I have really messy project with bunch of WIP’s all over.
Will keep learning. I hope at the end of this month to get somewhere.
I like this winter. There were almost no snow in the city which is really great thing. I hate snow in the city.
UPDATE: Phoenix is felling too “magical”. It feels like there are too much magic happening under the hood without clear indications of the flow. When I were working with plain Go… everything was trace-able. I were able easily to follow the chain. Even CodeIgniter felt way more predictable and easy to follow.